Re: Space, Times and projects

[Kao Chen <kaochen2 gmail com>]

I continue in the "Project" idea direction. I have modified a capture of the overview.
I have suppress the "Recent Documents" menu. I am sorry but I never use it.
The icons and texts are too small for me. I prefer to see it directly in Nautilus.

So I replaced it by a Projects menu.
Now we can drag and drop the project directly to the workspace we want.
We can also keep workspace empty to make activity without project, like listen music or surf the web.
http://nsa14.casimages.com/img/2010/04/29/100429085821394270.png

 Should I continue on that way? I need to know if  you still like this idea.
Thanks
Kao

2010/4/27 Kao Chen <kaochen2 gmail com>

I like the idea of project and I think, it's can be a good partner of "Activities".

Someone suggests to me that we can also make groups of projects.
I'am totally agree with him. Even more, if  we keep a project in time.

In my job, I install a new machine.
For this, I have stored up documents, hyperlinks,  installation scripts,  and manufacturer contacts.
If I have done a good job, I will never work again on this machine.
But most of the time, 6 month later, my Boss will say to me: 'Hey! can you upgrade this machine and make it do the coffee now, please'
I will be glad, if I can find again my old project with all the good job that I have already done.

So if I have to keep projects in time, I really need to make groups.
In my job, I make 3 or 4 working projects by week.

Another thought:
I we use the project idea, we have to clearly make the difference between a Project bin and a folder.
If the design is too close, the user can be disturb.
And It will be more difficult to us, to explain that, when you delete a file from you project, the file doesn't disappear from you computer.

I have worked with "Avid Interplay Database" which has a design close to a file manager, and it's easy to be confused.

2010/4/26 Sean Brady <sbrady gtfservices com>

I think that this is an interesting idea that perhaps should be explored further.

On 04/26/2010 07:03 AM, Kao Chen wrote:

hi everybody,

I have read a part of the "Finding and Reminding" discussion.
And I have a little drawing to suggest.
I imagine something which can match with yours ideas, I think.
I didn't take any consideration for the technical issues.
I first took the idea that a desktop couldn't be any longer a folder in fullscreen.

It's seems that the target for Gnome3 is to organize in "Activities". I prefer to say "Projects".

At work, at home I work by projects.
-I am in charge of the printers inventory of my company (project 1)
-I have to rebuild the contacts database  of my office (project 2)
-I search the best tv world for my new home. (project 3)
-And I make a beautiful mockup for Gnome3 (project 4)

A project, it's a sort of basket where we can puts what we need: files, Folders, contacts, hyperlinks, applications.
-We can rename it, suppress it, save it, restore it, merge it to others.
-We (can) use only shortcuts.

I suggest that we use tabs directly on the destop to represent projects.
We can assign a project to workspaces directly from the Overview without using tabs.
We can also use a scroll menu to switch between projects.


Now the other question is: How do we feed the basket.

I thinks that, we can use Timelines directly on the desktop.
One for files, one for folders and another for contacts.
A timeline displays the file by used date, the most recently on the left to keep the direction of reading.
We display few files and if we want to see more, we just approach the mouse to the other side to scroll the rest of the days.

We can also add starred at some elements to keep them in the left part.

In order to get a better idea, here is my mockup:
http://nsa15.casimages.com/img/2010/04/26/100426022404679486.png

All of that, it's a new idea and it needs to be improve.
If you don't like the idea, I hope that you see now more what you want or not.

Thanks for the listening.

I already shared my idea on the french ubuntu forum.
They help me to create and improve this idea here:
http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?id=237222&p=25

Bye

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